[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 19 (Thursday, February 7, 2013)]
[Senate]
[Page S497]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       CERTIFICATE OF APPOINTMENT

  The VICE PRESIDENT. The Chair lays before the 12:03 Senate a 
Certificate of Appointment to fill the vacancy created by the 
resignation of Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts. The certificate, 
the Chair is advised, is in the form suggested by the Senate. If there 
is no objection, the reading of the Certificate will be waived and it 
will be printed in full in the Record.
  (Applause)
  There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in 
the Record, as follows:

                   The Commonwealth of Massachusetts


                       Certificate of Appointment

     To the President of the Senate of the United States:
       This is to certify that, pursuant to the power vested in me 
     by the Constitution of the United States and the laws of the 
     Commonwealth of Massachusetts, I, Deval L. Patrick, the 
     Governor of said Commonwealth, do hereby appoint William 
     ``Mo'' Cowan a Senator from said State to represent said 
     State in the Senate of the United States until the vacancy 
     therein caused by the resignation of John F. Kerry, is filled 
     by election as provided by law.
       Witness: His excellency our governor Deval L. Patrick, and 
     our seal hereto affixed at Boston, Massachusetts this First 
     day of February, in the year of our Lord 2013.
           By the governor.
     Deval L. Patrick,
       Governor.
     William Francis Galvin,
       Secretary of Commonwealth.
     (State Seal Affixed.)

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